Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

- Holz, Julie

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

34.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

35.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William